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Reading
Passage1: Questions 1-10 - Literature
This passage is adapted from Donia Bijan, The Last Days of Cafe Leila.©2017 by Donia Bijan.Zod and his wife,Pari,help his parents,Nina and Yanik,manage the family restaurant in Tehran,Iran.
Passage 2: Questions 11-20 - Science
This passage is adapted from Alexandra Michel,"The Science of Humor Is No Laughing Matter."©2017 by Association for Psychological Science.
Passage 3: Questions 21-31 - Natural Science
This passage is adapted from Stanley Coren,"Train Too Much and a Dog Won't Remember."©2017 by SC Psychological Enterprises Ltd.
Summary:The article is about training dogs. It is said that if the dog takes a rest after a period of learning, the effect will be better than continuing to learn. After continuous intense training, the dog will forget the training movements, and it will be better to relax the memory after training.
Passage 4: Questions 32-42 - History
This passage is adapted from an 1879 speech attributed to Nez Perce Chief ln-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, also known as Chief Joseph,during a visit to Washington,DC In 1877,ln-mut-too-yah-lat-lat negotiated a surrender with Nelson A.Miles of the US Army to end the Battle of Bear Paw.
Summary:The article is about an Indian leader criticizing the US government. Saying that they did not give Indian freedom and then went to war with them, restricting their freedom, the white people always talked about it in secret, which is very unfair to the Indians.
Passage 5: Questions 43-52 - Natural Science
Passage 1 is adapted from Angelos Michaelides,"Slippery When Narrow."©2016 by Macmillan Publishers Limited,part of Springer Nature.Passage 2 is adapted from Anne M.Stark,"Carbon Nanotubes Worth Their Salt."Published in 2017 by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Writing and Language
Questions 1-11 from 《Music is for Birds》
Questions 12-22 from 《The Art of Writing》
Questions 23-33 from 《Charity Can Be Good for Business》
Questions 34-44 from 《The Camel Experiment》